2024 Shortlist

Congratulations to our 2024 APAC Search Awards finalists.

Best Use of Search – Retail eCommerce (SEO)

Calibre9 & Ghanda

— SERPs Up

Coles & Overdose Digital

— E-commerce SEO Transformation from Ground Up

G Squared & EMIER

— ‘Penetrating the Luxury SERP in just over 6 months’

GrowthSRC Media & The Pant Project

— Taking on Marketplaces, One Product at a Time!

Impressive & digiDirect

— Focus on Innovation: digiDirect’s Dynamic FAQs Through ChatGPT API

Online Marketing Gurus

— Kent Street Soars Against Retail Giants

Online Marketing Gurus

— Seasonal SEO With BCF: Casting Lines Ahead of Time

Prosperity Media & CPAP Direct

— From Snoring to Soaring Profits

Reform Digital & Factory Buys

— Factory-ing in all avenues

StudioHawk & Bondi Sands

— Bringing The Sun To The Rest Of The World

StudioHawk & Everything Caravan & Camping

— Into The Outback Of SERPs

StudioHawk & Exo Auto Parts

— Exhausting The Competition

Best Use of Search – Retail eCommerce (PPC)

Adcore & Best&Less

farsiight & Cycology

— Cranking Up Revenue By Shifting Gears From ROAS to MER

Online Path & Barberco

— Trimming Wasted Spend to Achieve 15x ROAS

TrafficGuard & Winni

— A Gift to ROI: Winni's Breakthrough Using TrafficGuard's Solutions

Best Use of Search – Finance (SEO)

GrowthOps Asia & DBS Bank

— DBS Innovate360: Charting the Future of Banking Through SEO

Infidigit & Tata Capital

— Elevating Financial Services through Strategic SEO

Marketix & Uno Home Loans

— Dominating the Australian Mortgage Broker Market

StudioHawk & National Accounts

— Turning Likes to Leads

Best Use of Search – Finance (PPC)

There is no shortlist for the category, the winner will be announced at the award ceremony.

Best Use of Search – Travel/Leisure (SEO)

Clearwater Agency & Highline Caravans

— Raising the roof & setting new standards

iProspect & APTouring

— Bot Blockade Breakthrough: Reclaiming SERPs Across Continents

Megantic & Hardkorr

— Lighting Up Organic Search

Prosperity Media & GO Rentals

— Licence To Rank: Accelerating Conversions and Driving Traffic

Best Use of Search – Travel/Leisure (PPC)

There is no shortlist for the category, the winner will be announced at the award ceremony.

Best Use of Search – B2B (SEO)

Digital Minds Group

— Access Group

infidigit

— ICICI Pru Life Achieved a 3.4x increase in Leads (Savings & Endowment Category)

Infidigit & Flipkart Seller Hub

— Increased Leads by 22X in 7 months

Prosperity Media & ResDiary

— Do You Want Leads With That?

SEO Sherpa & EMAPTA

— Outsource and Conquer

StudioHawk & Lash Jungle

— Lashes Long, Rankings High!

StudioHawk & Seer Medical

— Future-Proofed & Globally Boosted

Sunday Best Digital & MYP

— Search with integrity

The Egg & Iron Mountain

— Ascending Mount SERP

Best Use of Search – B2C (SEO)

Bloom Digital & AAA Garden Services

— This is no fair-weather B2C SEO campaign!

Calibre9 & b.box

— Building b.blocks For Success

Clearwater Agency & UniSQ

— Top of class performance for a 40 year old University

Prosperity Media & Alliance Climate Control

— “Heating Up the SERPs”

Prosperity Media & CPAP Direct

— From Snoring to Soaring Profits

Search Marketing Group

StudioHawk & Skylark Migration

— Emigrating To Page 1

Supple Digital & Australian Climate Systems

— Breezing to the Top

Best Use of Search – B2C (PPC)

Adcore & Fitness and Lifestyle Group

AdVisible & Dogs in Town

— Barking Up a Name Among Dog Owners

Andreas Consulting & Ridly Rubbish Removal

— Dumping the Competition.

G Squared & Brydens Lawyers

— ‘Scaling legal bookings at a market leading CPA’

MindArc & Arnolds Boat Shop

— Reshaping ROAS by simplifying account structure and audience planning

Best Use of Search – Health

Advisible & Manningham Skin Cancer Clinic

— Click, Heal & Success

Clearwater Agency & Coco Ruby

— Uplifting & renewing performance with surgical precision

Media Exchange & Oakleigh Dental

— Traffic Transformations: 0-20,000, Pretty Quick.

MindArc & Hireup

— How Hireup Used Content Clusters to Dominate the NDIS Content Space

Reform Digital & Fertility2Family

— Ovulation2Optimisation

StudioHawk & Seer Medical

— Future-Proofed & Globally Boosted

Best Use of Search – Automotive

Megantic & Road Runner Offroad

— Cruising to the top of rankings

Reform Digital & Offroad Industries

— Bumpy Roads Drive Great Results

Spicy Web & Ace Mechanics

— Goodbye Tyre Kickers!

Best Use of Search – Real Estate & Property

Clearwater Agency & Dynamic Residential

— Developing & acquiring prime digital realestate

Impressive & Centennial Living

— Location, Location, Location

Rocket Agency & LIV

— Leads to Leases with Data-Driven Marketing

Best Use of Search – Fashion

Adcore & Jeanswest

Calibre9 & Ghanda

— SERPs Up Dude

Digital Minds Group

— Merry People

G Squared & EMIER

— ‘Penetrating the Luxury SERP in just over 6 months’

Infidigit & Libas

— Weaving success by 185% Growth in Organic Transactions

Infidigit & Metro Shoes

— Rising to SERPreme Heights - Metro Shoes Non-Brand Clicks Surge by 676% – Fashion/Best SEO Campaign)

iProspect & GUESS

— From Generic to Gold: Elevating Performance with Pmax

Megantic & Louenhide

— Bagging the Best in Style and in SERPs with a Migration to Shopify

Reform Digital & My Little Wardrobe

— Supporting Small Fish in Big Ponds

Best Local Campaign (SEO)

Art of Smart Education

— Local Tutoring Campaign

Bloom Digital & AAA Garden Services

— This is no fair-weather local campaign!

Clearwater Agency & Dynamic Residential

— Developing & acquiring prime digital realestate

Digital Hitmen & E Eye Place

— Clear Vision, Clear Results!

Digital Surfer & Plus One Vet

— The New Dog, Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks.

Infidigit & Orange Health Labs

— Elevating Test Bookings By 266% Through Local SEO

MindArc & Pacific Concepts

— The SEOcret Ingredient for Local Success

Online Marketing Gurus & Kwik Conquest

— Harnessing Local SEO

Searcht & SkinKandy

— A hole new level of local search visibility

SingleInterface & Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited (MOSL)

— Digitizing MOSL for franchise-level business growth

Best Local Campaign (PPC)

Advisible & Thirteen Feet Tattoo

— Sydney Tattoo Convention: A canvas of Ink & Talent.

Digital Hitmen & We Buy Your Car WA

— Turnkey Car Sale Solutions

GrowthOps Asia & Telekom Malaysia

— Precision Segmentation for Maximized ROI

Localsearch & Balance Mobility

— Boom & Room: Balance Mobility's Rise

Searcht & SkinKandy

— A Piercing Journey to Local Ads Success

Best Low Budget Campaign (SEO)

Bloom Digital & AAA Garden Services

— This is no fair-weather low budget SEO campaign!

Calibre9 & b.box

— Building b.blocks For Success

Digital Hitmen & Australia Wide Haulage

— Roadmap to SEO Success: Heavy Haulage, Heavy Impact!

GrowthSRC Media & Postudio

— Building an MVP with a Solution-led Content Approach

Infidigit & Alamode

— Thrilling 20X Organic ROI Breakthrough in Just 4 Months!

iProspect Australia & essie

— Nailing It: essie Australia’s colourful keyword strategy

Megantic & Hemley Store

— Dripping in Styling Growth

Online Marketing Gurus

— Taking Tommy To The Top

Pixelstorm & Classic Arch

— Climbing the stairs to SEO success

Sunday Best Digital & Callea Stone Masonry

— SEO builds business pipeline after tragedy

Sunday Best Digital & MYP

— Search with integrity
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Best Low Budget Campaign (PPC)

AdVisible & WG Services

— Stylish GA Detailing for Premium ROI

Clearwater & Iccons

— Engineering a New Approach to LinkedIn Marketing

Rise Seo

— Ezy Breezy

Status Agency & Crema Joe

— Brewing Up a Big Impact

Best Integrated Campaign

Advisible & Bayside Vets

— From Woof to Wow: An Integrated Pet Care Journey.

Bloom Digital & AAA Garden Services

— This is no fair-weather marketing campaign!

Digital Surfer & Concrete Floor Renovations

— Concrete Can Grow

iProspect & Accor

— Empowering 'community connectors' with localized content

MindArc & Academy Brand

— OneSearch To Rule Them All, OneSearch To Find Us

Rocket Agency & LIV

— Leads to Leases with Data-Driven Marketing

Most Innovative Campaign

Impressive & Zanui

— Furnishing Success: Scaling Online Presence with Programmatic SEO

Megantic & Wahu

— Navigating Aussie Waves: Scaling Heights, Surging Traffic

Online Marketing Gurus

— Our Eureka Moment For Jims IT
Sponsored by DIGINIUS

Best PPC Campaign

Adcore & OZSALE

G Squared & Brydens Lawyers

— ‘Scaling legal bookings at a market leading CPA’

GrowthOps Asia & Telekom Malaysia

— Precision Segmentation for Maximized ROI

Search Marketing Group

Best SEO Campaign

AEK Media & Criminal Defence Lawyers Australia

— From Lawyer to Law Firm

Calibre9 & b.box

— Thinking Outside The b.box

Calibre9 & Ghanda

— SERPs Up Dude

Clearwater Agency & Dynamic Residential

— Developing & acquiring prime digital realestate

Clearwater Agency & Highline Caravans

— Raising the roof & setting new standards

Coles & Overdose Digital

— E-commerce SEO Transformation from Ground Up

Digital Surfer & Main Lawyers

— How a Small Law Firm Has Made its Mark with SEO

GrowthSRC Media & The Pant Project

— Taking on Marketplaces, One Product at a Time!

Impressive & Mattel Australia

— Seamless Shift: From Mattel USA to Mattel Australia Without a Hitch

Megantic & The White Collection

— Saying I Do to Rank 1

Prosperity Media & Alliance Climate Control

— “Heating Up the SERPs”

Rocket Agency & Snap Print

— Driving revenue and business growth

Best Use of Content Marketing

Art of Smart Education

— Bounce Back Campaign

Digital Surfer & Main Lawyers

— Writing Our Way To The Top

GrowthSRC Media & Postudio

— Building an MVP with a Solution-led Content Strategy

iProspect & Kérastase

— Expert Hair Care, Unlocked.

Pattern & STRAND

— Growing Fashion Awareness

Prosperity Media & GO Rentals

— Licence To Rank: Accelerating Conversions and Driving Traffic

Prosperity Media & ResDiary

— Do You Want Leads With That?

Supple Digital & Australian Climate Systems

— Breezing to the Top

Wavemaker & Mitsubishi Motors

— Outlandish Outreach

Best Use of Social Media in a Search

Rocket Agency & UKO

— Multi-Channel Strategy for Remarkable Growth

Tasman Eco & AEK Media

Best Use of Data (SEO)

Clearwater Agency & Coco Ruby

— Uplifting & renewing performance with surgical precision

Coles & Overdose Digital

— E-commerce SEO Transformation from Ground Up

Online Marketing Gurus & Kwik Conquest

— Harnessing Data For Local SEO

Wavemaker & Mitsubishi Motors

— Outlandish Outreach

Webplanners & VET Resources

— Improving VET Resource's SEO Results by AI-powered Data-driven Strategies."
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Best Use of Data (PPC)

Digital Minds Group

— Class Bento

Magic & Early Settler

— Least Squares of Localization

Spicy Web & Ace Mechanics

— Goodbye Tyre Kickers

Best Software Innovation

Adthena

Dragon Metrics

TrafficGuard

Best PPC Management Software Suite

There is no shortlist for the category, the winner will be announced at the award ceremony.

Best Search Software Tool

Adthena

Adpulse.app

Swydo

Sponsored by SMX ADVANCED EUROPE

Rising Star Award

Alissa Ierardi

— Reform Digital

Brodie Ranson

— Reload Media

Joshua Poole

— StudioHawk

Lauren Schwartz

— Maid2Match

Reina Rizzi Caballero

— Art of Smart Education

Remi Audette

— Sunday Best Digital Agency

Ryan Chilton

— Digital Surfer
Sponsored by DIGINIUS

Best Start-Up Agency (Less than 2 years old)

Kia Ora Digital

Sunday Best Digital Agency

Best Small SEO Agency (25 or under employees)

Digital Hitmen

Rise SEO

Sunday Best Digital Agency

Best Medium SEO Agency (26 – 50 employees)

There is no shortlist for the category, the winner will be announced at the award ceremony.
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Best Large SEO Agency (51+ employees)

Jaywing

Megantic

StudioHawk

Sponsored by PIMENTO

Best Small Integrated Agency (25 or under employees)

AEK Media

Digital Minds Group

Digital Surfer

farsiight

MindArc Marketing

Reform Digital

Sponsored by DIGINIUS

Best Medium Integrated Agency (26 – 50 employees)

There is no shortlist for the category, the winner will be announced at the award ceremony.
Sponsored by DIGINIUS

Best Large Integrated Agency (51+ employees)

There is no shortlist for the category, the winner will be announced at the award ceremony.

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Testimonials

"Given that SIXGUN is an independent agency operating in a competitive market, being recognised alongside well-known large-scale agencies at last year’s Search Awards was an exceptionally rewarding experience for the entire team. SIXGUN recognises the APAC Search Awards as the pinnacle of digital marketing acknowledgement, and we will of course submit any noteworthy campaigns to all future APAC Search Awards, as we continue to build strength in SEO, Google Ads and Paid Social."
SixGun
"We are proud of our victory at the APAC Search Awards for the Best PPC Campaign. This accolade not only showcases the agency’s expertise in Pay-Per-Click advertising but also highlights its dedication to delivering outstanding results for clients. The award reflects Search Marketing Group’s commitment to excellence in the dynamic field of digital marketing, reinforcing its position as a reliable and forward-thinking partner for small businesses aiming to navigate and succeed in the competitive online market."
Search Marketing Group
“Winning gold at the 2024 APAC Search Awards is an incredible honour. This achievement speaks volumes to the dedication and hard work of both the Megantic Australia and Megantic Macedonia teams. I also want to acknowledge the vital role played by the Louenhide team. Their receptiveness to our innovative SEO ideas have led us to achieve remarkable growth in the organic channel. Together, we’ve formed a dream team, seamlessly combining our strengths to achieve exceptional results. This win ignites our passion to continue surpassing expectations, motivating us to constantly push boundaries and consistently deliver outstanding results.” Frezel Enriquez
Megantic
"Receiving recognition like the APAC Awards means more than just winning. It provides a platform for budding agencies like us to showcase our capabilities. It’s a stepping stone to success and an opportunity to grow even more."
Calibre9
“The APAC Search Awards night was an unforgettable experience. Being surrounded by some of the best talents in the industry was truly inspiring. When Online Path was announced as the winner, it was a moment of validation for all the hard work and unyielding dedication our team has put in.” Michael Gibbons
Online Path
Winning at the APAC Search Awards has been such an incredible feeling for our team! Getting recognized next to some of the top players in the industry really highlights how much dedication, creativity, and effort we put into every campaign. As an SEO provider, the APAC Search Awards give us the perfect chance to stand out in our field, and we couldn’t be prouder to be part of a community that honors the best in search. It’s also a great moment to reflect on what we can improve each year and take those lessons forward into everything we do next. Lawrence Hitches
StudioHawk
Entering the APAC Search Awards has been an incredibly rewarding experience. The nomination alone is a testament to the hard work, creativity and analytical precision that our team pours into every campaign. For us, being a finalist is more than just an accolade. It’s a validation of our core philosophy: that a personalised, data-driven approach to digital marketing and hard work can achieve extraordinary results. It’s also a reminder of the importance of collaboration—both within our team and with our clients. Richard Chen
Rich Harvest Digital
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